Organizacja opieki i pomocy społecznej oraz dobroczynność w Królestwie Polskim. Rada Główna Opiekuńcza Szpitali. Towarzystwa dobroczynne (1817–1870)
Organization of Care, Social Welfare and Charity in the Kingdom of Poland. The Central Hospital Welfare Council. Charitable Societies (1817–1870)

Author(s): Dorota Lewandowska
Subject(s): 19th Century
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Central Hospital Supervision Council; charitable societies; hospitals; poorhouses; charitable institutions; nurseries
Summary/Abstract: Since 1817, the public charity in the Kingdom of Poland had been managed by the Central Hospital Supervision Council, acting under the authority of the Government Commission of Internal Affairs and the Police. In 1832, the Central Hospital Supervision Council was replaced by the Central Hospital Welfare Council, and the hospital supervision councils working at the voivodeship commissions by the local welfare councils for each institution separately. Next changes were introduced by the tsar’s decree of 1842. The hospitals and the charitable institutions became subordinated to the Government Commission of Internal and Spiritual Affairs. Despite the fact that it still fulfilled management functions, the Central Welfare Council became a body with limited competence, which included, among others, supervising charitable societies. The system introduced in 1842 functioned until 1870, when all charity institutions went under the management of the Ministry of the Interior. The direct management of charitable institutions was handed over to the governorate and county public charity councils.

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